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Kress in 2018 in Tartu

Gunther Rolf Kress MBE (26 November 1940 – 20 June 2019) was a linguist and semiotician.[1] He is considered one of the leading theorists in critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and multimodality, particularly in relation to their educational implications.[2][3] Kress has been described as "one of the leading academics of the early 21st century".[4]

Biography

Kress was born in Nuremberg Germany and trained as a linguist in Australia [5] and London under MAK Halliday. He is mainly known for his contributions to the study of Multimodality; he wrote with Theo van Leeuwen Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, one of the most influential books on the topic.[6]

Kress was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.[7] On 30 January 2015, Kress received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.[8]

Works

  • Kress, Gunther R. (1997). Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13804-3.
  • Kress, Gunther R. (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25356-X.
  • Kress, Gunther R.; Van Leeuwen, Theo (2006). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31915-3.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ van Leeuwen, Theo (2019). "Gunther Rolf Kress (26 November 1940 – 20 June 2019)". Discourse & Society. 30 (6): 653–654. doi:10.1177/0957926519866535. ISSN 0957-9265.
  2. ^ Mahmood, Naazir (30 June 2019). "The master of social semiotics | Dialogue | thenews.com.pk". The News on Sunday. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  3. ^ Andersen, Thomas Hestbaek; Boeriis, Morten; Maagerø, Eva; Tonnessen, Elise Seip. Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Directions. doi:10.4324/9781315696799/social-semiotics-thomas-hestbaek-andersen-morten-boeriis-eva-maagerø-elise-seip-tonnessen.
  4. ^ "UEA announces honorary graduates for 2019". University of East Anglia. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  5. ^ Skyer, Michael E. (21 April 2016). "Gunther Kress: Multimodality, Communication, and Education Introduction and Context". Academia.edu. p. 3. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  6. ^ Bateman, John; Wildfeuer, Janina; Hiippala, Tuomo (2017). Multimodality : Foundations, Research and Analysis - A Problem-Oriented Introduction. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-047942-3.
  7. ^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 18.
  8. ^ "New honorary doctor at Faculty of Educational Sciences - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved 2 February 2016.


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